Morfydd Mortymer

I see a light in every window
Shadows move down in the street
The night is cold along the pit rows
The children cry, no food to eat

And I remember my days of passion
When the blood ran high and the day was new
When I had faith in my lord and masters
Before I learned the dreadful truth

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A woman’s place is not to question
But to work and slave for all mankind
So my life became one of dissention
With all my heart I will speak my mind

I fell in love with a man of vision
A man who came to change the times
But they shot him down In the Merthyr rising
But he left me with his only child

My wedding day was filled with sadness
For the man I joined was not my love
But I took his name for it was my duty
so my son would know my family’s love

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Soon trouble came into the valleys
We marched to change all we had known
In Newport town we fought the red coats
We lost that day but a seed was sown

Now I sit alone all hope forsaken
My man is gone and still the children cry
But the fight goes on for truth a justice
For what is right cannot be denied

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